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Quick Hit: Feministing on Glamocracy

Check out our answers to Glamocracy blogger Fernanda Diaz's questions concerning the election, in general, and Hillary's run, in specific. Glamocracy is a new project of Glamour , designed to highlight the voices and opinions of five diverse young women on the election. We think that's pretty darn swell (although it might now be our new goal to get Fernanda out of the feminist closet). Watch out lady!

Posted by Courtney - January 17, 2008, at 09:58AM | in Politics

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Ya'll did great. She seems to have some false impressions of what feminism is today and its growing constituency.

Good answers! But there's a bad taste in my mouth because women like her annoy the shit out of me.

You all did so well in articulating some difficult answers! And I agree with Sarah, the idea that you would only label yourself as a feminist because something bad happened to you and now you care, not just because you support women's equality in general, just creeps me out.

"But I have a well-paying job so sexism mustn't be real!"

Women like her are so short-sighted. As long as they've got theirs, the battle has been won. Plus they want boys to like 'em.

Do you feel compelled to wear make-up to work while your male colleagues don't?

Do you have to work twice as hard to be taken half as seriously as your male counterparts?

Are the women in your office asked to do things that are never asked of the men?
[This happens in my office. An email will go out to the women only, asking for help with some huge envelope-stuffing job. In an office with about 50/50 men & women, who range from entry-level on up. The men are oblivious ("No sexism in MY office!").]

Are you expected to choose between your career and a family?

Do you work "the second shift" at home while your partner does not?

I mean, the list goes on. People think that as long as women are "equal" under the law, sexism is over. Or that if a woman has a top position in a firm, it's over.
Way to miss the millions of little things that add up to patriarchy.

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